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“Purgatory is like our modern colleges: no one can flunk out of them. - from his intro into his translation of the divine comedy.”
― Ciardi, John,

“People don't want a bookkeeper for an Emperor; they want a master, someone who'll protect them from change.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“recall, a post-Soviet and -Jihad era when - somehow even worse - there was no real Foreign Menace of any real unified potency to hate and fear, and the U.S. sort of Turned on itself and its own philosophical fatigue and hideous redolent wastes with a spasm of panicked rage that in retrospect seems possible only in a time of geopolitical supremacy and consequent silence, the loss of any external Menace to hate and fear.”
― David Foster Wallace

“Rumour whose joy it is to embroider the truth with falsehood and grows by her lies to gigantic proportions from tiny beginnings”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses